PREDI C TI VE I NTEL L I GE NC E
Eliminating the
blind spot
CISOs and their teams face increasing pressure
to manage the sophisticated new cyberthreats that
are constantly emerging, with visibility a crucial part
of staying one step ahead. Hesham Elsherif, Principal
System Engineer at A10 Networks, tells us how the company’s
Thunder SSLi product can be seamlessly deployed to bolster an
organisation’s cybersecurity defence and, critically, eliminate the
blind spot.
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How would you describe the
overall threat landscape?
Day after day, cyberattacks and
threats are increasing in complexity
and in volume, which represent a daily
challenge for executives to block and
disarm these threats. IOT, 5G, IPv6,
Office365 and NFV are all newcomers to
the Middle East and these technologies
will change the rules. Infrastructure
needs to be adapted to accommodate
the rapid growth and new user behaviour
to ensure safe communication and to
eliminate security threats.
In 2019, according to Ponemon Institute
and IBM Securities, US$3.92 million is
the average cost of a data breach and
US$150 is the average cost per record
lost. There has been a 650% increase
in trojan-based malware threats and a
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195% increase in ransomware in Q1
2019 according to the HIPAA Journal.
A total 90% of breaches were caused
by phishing as per a Retruster report.
And almost 50% of cyberattacks use
encryption to evade security, as 94%
of all Internet traffic is encrypted
according to the Google Transparency
Report/Dark Reading.
What are some of the most
complex network security
challenges that enterprises
and large organisations
are encountering?
I would say building a skilled security
team that is capable of identifying
priorities and executing on a plan is
key. This begins with assessing the
assets (data and infrastructure) up to
correlating between different security
Hesham Elsherif, Principal System Engineer
at A10 Networks
reports and analyses. This helps to
establish a vision, but before that
the CISO has to ensure that vision is
comprehensive and that an assessment
is built based on accurate reports
and measured analysis. Without
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